Monday, February 2, 2009
How to: Install a New FlatPress Theme
FlatPress comes with two blog site themes leggero and flatmaas2. For additional themes, visit these two sites. The FlatPress wiki site is the most active site offering themes for both v.8 and v.7 of FlatPress. A theme showcase site offers themes for v7. Some fans of FlatPress offer alternative download locations which are listed at the bottom of this post.
FlatPress version 8 blogs should use themes developed for v8. Version 7 themes do not display the properly in v8. The wiki site offers both v8 and v7 themes with the latest themes listed first. All these themes are created by fans of FlatPress, many are conversions of Wordpress themes. To contact the authors of these themes, I would recommend first trying FlatPress forum category “Themes and Styles”.
If you are looking for additional v7 themes, try the showcase theme site. Besides offering additional v7 themes, it allows you to switch the theme being used on its site allowing you to view how they look.
When choosing a theme, pick one that is compatible for the version of FlatPress you are running. To get your FlatPress version number, click Admin Panel > Maintain > Check for updates.
Installation Procedures
- Visit wiki:themes or v7 themes showcase.
- Choose a theme and download it to your PC.
- Use your website provided file manager tool and connect to your website. You can use FileZilla for most of this except uncompressing the file.
- Go to your FlatPress directory (folder) fp-interfacethemes and create a new directory.
- Name the directory the same as the theme or any other unique name.
- Upload the theme file to this directory.
- Uncompress the theme into this directory.
- Login to your the Flatpress Blog site.
- Go to Admin Panel > Config.
- Scroll down to the Theme.
- Using the drop down arrow select your theme
- Click Save Changes a the bottom of the page
- Test your blog pages using Firefox, IE, and any other browser you visitors use.
- For help in testing browsers you do not have access to, try browsershots.org
- When everything appears to working, delete the zip file you uploaded to your FlatPress directory. Do not delete any of the files you uncompressed from the file.
Download Locations
- FlatPress Wiki:themes article offers the latest fan craeted themes.
- FlatPress showcase blog provides V7 Themes with option to view the theme on the site.
- Themes ported by Marco Vergagni’
- Download page for version 7 themes.
- FlatyMistLook theme by Sneakatron
- Teras themes and styles hosted by Saeba Digital
Conclusion
Changing themes is fairly simple and with so many to choose from don’t be shy about trying a new theme. You can always switch back.
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